Lead Exercise 4

Last night there was an armed robbery at BJ’s drug on 450 Stanley Street. $382.65 was stolen as two men wearing ski masks entered the building armed. A gun was held to the head of the owner Barney Joseph, Jr. during the robbery. The masked men got away in a car that had the engine running outside of the building. Joseph did have a pistol under the counter but decided not to use it as he told police it felt unsafe.

This is not the first time this happened to the store, about 25 years ago BJ’s was robbed as well. Josephs father was the owner of the store and during the holdup he pulled out a weapon unlike his son and was shot and killed. The memory of his father being shot during a robbery seemed to affect Josephs decision to use his pistol. Joseph said “I rather part with my money than my life.” There were no other details about the two masked men.

 

A gracious donation from a deceased man gives children new rides at local parks. Robert T.F. Ho died two days ago but not to late to give back to the community. Robert was a local merchant who owned the Quick Stop Laundry on 390 Fifth Avenue.  He wanted his donation of new rides to the parks to be from an anonymous person but when he died the Park department thought it would be good to release his name.

Roberts’s wife said “Robert always enjoyed watching the kids play in the park across the street. He felt sorry for the kids who had to wait to use the equipment, especially the little ones.” Now more kids will be able to play as new rides like the “Hanging Gate”, lets kids push themselves in circles and a “SuperSlide”, which is for toddlers and lets them, enjoy a big slide without having to climb up long ladders. The total cost for this project will be $11,000.

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Journalism paper 1 final draft

Shane Hennen

Professor Fugslang

Fundamentals of Journalism Comm. 208

Due: September 11, 2012

Roadman Lobby or Grandmas Basement?

            Smack-dab in the middle of Morningside’s campus sits a tan, plant-covered building known as the Roadman Residence Hall, named after Dr. Earl Roadman. Dr. Earl Roadman was Morningside College’s President from 1936 to 1956. This newly renovated structure provides a college students ideal walking distance to many other important buildings. Not to mention the picturesque slice of numerous garden-fresh flowers basking in the sunlight outside the building.

It is hard to resist the urge to pull out a magnifying glass and investigate the inside of this astounding structure. When taking a stroll inside the front entrance of Roadman hall the first thing that one see’s is the main lobby. An image of hanging out at grandmas always pops up. Pale walls and outdated furniture surround the room. Keithan Karn said, “It’s very plain and there isn’t much color in the room.” Sitting in the middle of the room is the main attraction, the pool table. Other allures are neighboring this table of fun. Covered with entrances and exits, the sounds of doors slamming open and shutting echoes through the student hang out. The early morning crowd does not make much of any other noises besides occasional beeps of key scanners. The temperature is relaxing enough to stay, while sitting in the obsolete furniture is like hanging out in grandma’s basement.

As the day the progresses the relaxing temperature is gone as quick as an apple pie at grandma’s Christmas party. Morningside’s learners are leaving for their classes. The room soon fills with sounds of feet scattering across the floors surface and the air turns moist and uncomfortable. The scents of body spray and shower soap fill the lobby. One student Kyle Nikkel says, “I can smell the scent of dirty laundry because of the laundry room right next to it.” Boys and girls occasionally sit down with their backpacks and their eyes on their cell phones, but for the most part the lobby is just another room to walk through till a student reaches their dorm.

The day reaches its halfway point and that early morning relaxing temperature is long gone. The familiar noises of this lobby stays around throughout the day until all of Morningside’s student athletes practices have come to an end. This is when the real noises come out. The loud, mostly pointless, conversations from student to student start to fill the room as people walk through. The clean well-kept lobby soon turns into a pit where students accidently drop their food wrappers and pop bottles. The pool table tries to do its best couch imitation, as students seem to think it is a nice place to sit down. Sometimes the smell of “cookies being baked” comes out during the night says Stephen O’Neill, this could be due to the kitchen near by the lobby or maybe the fact that the image of grandmas basement is taking over all of one’s senses.

As the night begins to wind down the emergence of students trying to study comes. The light sound of music comes out of ear buds, and the bright computer screens are scattered across the room. The crunching of wrappers containing any young adults favorite snacks begin to come about. The cue ball hitting the other polyester and acrylic balls lets out a cracking noise. Student’s bed times finally come around and the room becomes empty. All that is left is what the Roadman lobby started with. A temperature that has come back down, outdated furniture, and those pale walls and the image of a grandma’s house.

 

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lead exercise 2

Verbal Attacks During Last Nights City Council Meeting

 

Name-calling and shouting between Mayor and Councilman happened during last night’s Sioux City City Council meeting. The two men in the name-calling battle were Mayor Robert Scott and Councilman Harlan Wolfe. The meeting was about a new mall being built in downtown Sioux City.

The mayor was in favor of the mall and during his speech to promote the idea, Wolfe interrupted and said loudly “Mayor, If you didn’t do your homework in school any better than you’ve done it now, it’s a wonder you got past the second grade.” Now this was just the start of the verbal battle between these two men. The mayor fired back and called Wolfe “vindictive and obstructionist.” Wolfe had plenty more to say about the mayor when he called him a “sucker for the hucksters who want to make a fast buck at the public’s expense.” After these words from Wolfe the mayor vowed to “work overtime” in the next election to make sure Wolfe got voted out of office.

The shouting fest became out of hand and the meeting was adjourned and the motion was passed. On the way out the mayor and Wolfe were still arguing.

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My writing problems

I think some of my strengths are thinking of a good lead and story and being creative while writing it. That is also my favorite part of writing. I think i struggle when it comes to the mechanics of writing and also some of the grammar. Sometimes i don’t think a whole lot about that stuff when i write and im just writing. I know what message and idea i want to get out there but i usually have some grammatical errors in the writing.

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Texas Rangers’ Joe Nathan loses bet, wears official Tony Romo uniform to ballpark

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This story is about Joe Nathan and the Texas Ranger baseball team. It about how Joe Nathan lost a bet with one of his teammates and was forced to wear the jersey of his least favorite NFL team to practice and sign autographs in it.

I think this qualifies as news because the Rangers are a popular team in the MLB and it brings a comical part to the news and sports. I know i saw this on ESPN so if they are covering it then it must be important enough for sports news.

Also the MLB season is winding down and it at the part where not many people are watching it anymore so this brings people attention back to the season.

 

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Lead exercise

1.Bob Harwood, a local firefighter made a heroic climb on 102 11th Ave, to save a cat from an oak tree. The cat climbed its way 50 feet from the ground in an oak tree and needed a rescue. Harwood made the climb and rescued the cat but on his way down suffered a broken leg after falling 15 feet due to a dead limb breaking off the tree.

Bob is doing “just fine” at St. Lukes Hospital, while the cat had a softer landing on top of Bob. The cat can now return to its owners, Suzanne and Samantha Decker who are twin daughters of Charlie and Kim Decker.

2. False alarms, Protests, food fights, suspensions, and drugs, are some of the problems East High school is facing as summer vacation nears. Ten upperclassman have been suspended for a week after protesting the schools decision to suspend five other students that were caught smoking marijuana in a school parking lot. During these protests there was three false alarms going off last Wednesday, the school thinks they have found the culprits according to the Principle. If these problems were not enough, a food fight closed the cafeteria on Thursday.

The answer to these problems seems to be due to some “unrest.” Principle Vibelius said “Not so much unrest because of suspensions, but because of summer vacation being so near.” She doesn’t think these incidents will come about in the near future.

3.Gas floods sewer lines after a terrible accident causing a Texaco gas truck to overturn. The gas has flooded sewer lines within two blocks of 48th and Correctionville road. This incident was very serious until the gas was flushed out two hours after.

Four families were evacuated during this accident. Cars were rerouted to side roads because the gas got onto the road and into the ditches. The situation was in goods hands with the local firemen on the scene. They had just practiced the procedures for this type of accident before hand according to fire Chief Charles Hochandel.

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Journalism description paper draft 1

Shane Hennen

Professor Fugslang

Fundamentals of Journalism Comm. 208

Due: September 11, 2012

Roadman Lobby

            Smack-dab in the middle of Morningside’s campus sits a tan, plant-covered building known as the Roadman Residence Hall, named after Dr. Earl Roadman. Dr. Earl Roadman was Morningside College’s President from 1936 to 1956. This newly renovated structure provides a college students ideal walking distance to many other important buildings. Not to mention the picturesque slice of numerous garden-fresh flowers basking in the sunlight, outside the building.

It is hard to resist the urge to pull out a magnifying glass and investigate the inside of this astounding structure. When taking a stroll inside the front entrance of Roadman hall the first thing that one see’s is the main lobby. Pale walls and outdated furniture surround the room. Sitting in the middle of the room is the main attraction, the pool table. Other allures are neighboring this table of fun. Covered with entrances and exits, the sounds of doors slamming open and shut echoes through the student hang out. The early morning crowd does not make much of any other noises besides occasional beeps of key scanners. The temperature is relaxing enough to stay, while sitting in the obsolete furniture is like hanging out in a grandmother’s basement.

As the day the progresses the relaxing temperature is gone as quick as a jelly filled donut on a police officers desk. Morningside’s learners are leaving for their classes. The room soon fills with sounds of feet scattering across the floors surface and the air turns moist and uncomfortable. The scents of body spray and shower soap fill the lobby. Boys and girls occasionally sit down with their backpacks and their eyes on their cell phones, but for the most part the lobby is just another room to walk through till a student reaches their dorm.

The day reaches its half waypoint and that early morning relaxing temperature is long gone. The familiar noises of this lobby stay around throughout the day until all of Morningside’s student athletes’ practices have come to an end. This is when the real noises come out. The loud, mostly pointless, conversations from student to students start to fill the room as people walk through. The clean well-kept lobby soon turns in to a pit where students accidently drop their food wrappers and pop bottles. The pool table tries to do its best couch imitation, as students seem to think it is a nice place to sit down.

As the night begins to wind down the emergence of students trying to study comes. The light sound of music comes out of ear buds, and the bright computer screens are scattered across the room. The crunching of wrappers containing any young adults favorite snacks begin to come about. The cue ball hitting the other polyester and acrylic balls lets out a cracking noise. Student’s bed times finally come around and the room becomes empty. All that is left is what the Roadman lobby started with. A temperature that has come back down, outdated furniture, and those pale walls.

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Josh Porcher

The Morningside Mustangs football team will be missing a key part in their defensive scheme this year. Josh Porcher, a corner expecting to contribute this year, went down with a bad knee injury. The mass comm major suffered a torn ACL while playing basketball one day before preseason. “I went up went for a block and came down and right leg buckled”.

Josh described himself as a balanced corner and said the team is handling the loss pretty well. “They had a great first game, the best first game I have seen since I have been here”, “a couple of guys have been stepping up at my spot to fill in”.

ACL tears are a common knee injury in athletics and can be quite difficult rehab. Josh said “Im handling the injury better and accpeted it was hurt and I have to rehab. Its hurts like hell every day”. Josh also told me he expects his team to win the GPAC this year and and go undefeated in the playoffs. However the Mustangs finish this year, Josh is going to be ready to go next year for another run.

 

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Mark Sanchez’s tryst with Eva Longoria is Jets’ latest non-distraction distraction

This article is about Mark Sanchez and the New York Jet’s offensive struggles this preseason. They are basically giving Sanchez a hard time for getting his new girlfriend Eva Longoria. They also talk about Sanchez’s playing ability could be the problem with the offense.

I think this is newsworthy because it appeals to a couple of groups of people. Football fans would find this pretty interesting because the Jet’s are one of the most popular team in the league right now and the fact that the only touchdown that they have scored came from the third string quarter back has drawn even more attention on them. It also appeals to the fans of Eva Longoria. She has had a couple relationships start and end in the past couple of years and her fans would probably be excited about this. Also the story isn’t just about these two it is about the Jet’s football team.

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Heaven on a stick

Pulling the cold treat out of its container and ripping open the white wrapper was a delicious surprise to my slow morning. When grabbing that treat and beginning to slowly rip open the wrapper, you get your first glance at the muddy brown chocolate bar. Even though the treat feels cold as making a snowball in the winter , it gave me a warm feeling in my hungry early morning stomach. When taking that first bite you will hear a soft crunch that soon goes quiet as your teeth reach the cold, white, vanilla inside of the little piece of heaven on a stick.

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